Looking Back – March 21

2008

East Fork White River at Columbus and Seymour began receding after flooding closed dozens of roads and Gov. Mitch Daniels visited Seymour to survey flood damage.

1993

Columbus East’s girls gymnastics team finished third at the state gymnastics championships, and East’s Jazz Inc. jazz band scored the best in Group 2 at the Indiana State School Music Association State Jazz Band and Contest, the only band in their classification to receive a superior or division one rating.

1968

Sixty-two city building permits were reported issued in February, including one for $1,182,000 for the new Bartholomew County Hospital addition.